Things Which Make My Head Spin

Crap You Should Know... But Probably Dont....


I just saw a Saturn Auto commercial on TV, and they were yapping about the company or someone they designate making your payments for you if you lose your job while still paying them back for their loan....blaa...blaa...blaa...

All I want to know is...

Is that the level where we've all sunken to today?

A. You'd buy a car you don't need because you probably already have a perfectly good one.

B. You buy a car that costs more than you can afford because you "just want it."

C. Now you'd buy a car because the company selling you the car will make your payments for you because you're insecurely employed and can't afford the vehicle in the first place.

D. Under "el Presidente" Obamarama you'd buy a car from a company that THE GOVERNMENT has to guarantee the warranty for because the company is financially insolvent?

(cue the sound of the crickets chirping while I catch my breath...)

OK, the "financially insolvent company" I'm talking about would be none other than...

get ready...

General Motors.

The one and the same General Motors which has a thinly veiled stinky history of double dealing and politically aided self serving activities that many if not most people either never knew or have forgotten.

To wit...I remind you of The Great American Streetcar Scandal.

To paraphrase the story if you're too lazy to Google it or click on my link, just know that it's been proven that in the late 1940's and early 1950's companies like GM and Firestone joined with other like minded companies in buying up city public transportation systems i.e. electric trolley lines and then proceeded to scrap them and tear up the tracks in favor of either replacing them with gas/diesel buses or in most cases private automobiles which they sold and made profit from.

I say that the fact that you can hardly get anywhere these days without a car in most smaller towns and cities is a direct result of GM's self dealing exploits, and the fact that they're responsible for putting an excessive cost burden for basic transportation on "working families" is an unpardonable sin for which they're finally being held accountable for today.

What a horrible ending to what was once considered to be a great company we're witnessing in 2009.

But then again...maybe it's a well deserved reward for the self serving, corrupt, behind the scenes dealing which ended up putting us all in the position we find ourselves in in the first place.
I say let the giant rotting corpse die, and take the idiot union goons with it to the grave...